Thursday, 17 March 2016

Dad posed as boyfriend of his 14-year-old daughter to trick her into sending nudes

A man went online posing as the teenage boyfriend of his 14-year-old daughter to trick her into sending him nude snaps of herself, a court heard.Local news website Syracuse.com said it was not naming anyone in the court case to protect the daughter. The man from Herkimer County, Syracuse, New York, is said to have posed as the youngster and then demanded the pictures from his own daughter.The court heard he even falsely claimed the fake boyfriend had killed himself and then used the photos as leverage when he began sexually abusing the 14-year-old girl.Federal court records say the 41-year-old man has now pleaded guilty to 12 counts of enticing a child to produce child pornography and receiving and sending child porn. He's facing sexual abuse charges.